If you are reading this message, odds are pretty good that this is just another regular Thursday for you. In fact, it might be a quieter Thursday than usual because you are receiving fewer email messages or articles from colleagues or people you know in the USA. Maybe you’ll get a bit more done than Read more…
Nov 24
FIR #783 – 11/24/14 – For Immediate Release
Quick News: Confidence produces better results than reputation, Internet to hit 3 billion users next year, Mattel is in trouble again over Barbie, the post-PC CEO has no desk and no desktop; Ragan promo; News That Fits: is not allowing comments on your…
Nov 21
7 Asterisk VoIP Security Advisories Issued
The Digium / Asterisk Security Team has obviously been extremely busy ensuring that Asterisk is as secure as possible given that yesterday they released 7 security advisories, although only one of them (AST2014-16) was rated as “Critical”. The others are rated as “Moderate” or “Minor” – but still are good reasons to upgrade to the latest […]
Nov 21
Beginning A Season Of Youth Curling Bonspiels
Tonight begins a new era in our lives as parents as our 12-year-old daughter competes for the first time in a curling "bonspiel" (tournament) that will go all weekend (or, at least, we hope so!). Over the past three years that she has been involved with the Petersham Curling Club youth program in nearby Petersham, MA, she’s been in the "Little Rocks" program where she has played in typically three or four one-day bonspiels around New England. But now that she has reached the age of 12 she is in the "Juniors" program… and they play at a much more…
Nov 21
LinkedIn Joins The World IPv6 Launch Measurements Project
We were very pleased to read that LinkedIn is joining the WorldIPv6 Launch measurements effort and providing data about what it is seeing in the way of IPv6 deployment among the many visitors coming to LinkedIn’s sites. In that post to the World IPv6 Launch blog, our colleague Mat Ford also pointed that the November Read more…
Nov 20
TDYR 186 – Japanese Dining Customs and other Reflections On My Short Visit
Some thoughts on dining customs in Japan and other cultural differences…
Nov 20
Watch Live Today at 13:00 US EST – DNSSEC Root KSK Ceremony 19
If you are interested in understanding a bit more about how the overall DNSSEC infrastructure operates, you can watch the “Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony 19″ live today, November 20, 2014, from a data center in Culpeper, Virginia, USA, starting at 1:00 pm US Eastern time, which is 18:00 UTC. All the information and the link to the Read more…
Nov 19
Testing Out Writing in Markdown
This is a top heading This is some random text that I’m including purely for the sake of having some text here. This is some more random text. This should be a next level heading. And here is some text … Continue reading
Nov 19
Nominations For Board of Public Interest Registry (Operator of .ORG) Close Nov 24 (Featured Blog)
Would you be interested in helping guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG domain? If so, the Internet Society is seeking nominations for three positions on the PIR Board of Directors. The nominations…
